Library for Everyone

Library for Everyone

Library for Everyone

Our Library of Publications for Everyone provides digital access to the entire online library published by the Foundation for Critical Thinking. This includes all of the educational materials published by the FCT. See the links below to gain access to articles, select portions of each title in the Thinker's Guide Library, as well as posters and laminated cards.

Thinkers Guides

All of our Thinker's Guides are now published by Rowman and Littlefield Publishers. In this section, you find samples sections from each guide. For the full guides, visit Rowman and Littlefield, (rowman.com)

The Miniature Guide to Critical Thinking Concepts & Tools

The Thinker's Guide to Analytic Thinking

The Thinker's Guide to the Human Mind

The Thinker's Guide for Students on How to Study & Learn a Discipline

The Thinker's Guide to Ethical Reasoning

Student Guide to Historical Thinking

The Aspiring Thinker's Guide to Critical Thinking

How to Read a Paragraph: The Art of Close Reading

How to Write a Paragraph: The Art of Substantive Writing

A Glossary of Critical Thinking Terms and Concepts

The Art of Asking Essential Questions

The Nature and Functions of Critical & Creative Thinking

The Thinker's Guide to Scientific Thinking

Fact over Fake: A Critical Thinker's Guide to Media Bias and Political Propaganda

The Thinker's Guide to Fallacies: The Art of Mental Trickery

The Thinker's Guide to Clinical Reasoning

The Thinker's Guide to Engineering Reasoning

The Thinker's Guide to Intellectual Standards

From the journal Inquiry: Critical Thinking Across the Curriculum

Mass Media and Critical Thinking: Reasoning for a Second-Hand World

Critical Thinking and Emotional Intelligence

Critical Thinking and Command of Language

A "Third Wave" Manifesto: Keynotes of the Sonoma Conference

Thinking Critically About Identities

Richard Paul's Contributions to the Field of Critical Thinking Studies and to the Establishment of First Principles in Critical Thinking

Richard Paul and the Philosophical Foundations of Critical Thinking

Truth-seeking Versus Confirmation Bias: How Richard Paul's Conception of Critical Thinking Cultivates Authentic Research and Fairminded Thinking

Portaging Richard Paul's Model to Professional Practice: Ideas that Integrate

Richard Paul's Approach to Critical Thinking: Comprehensiveness, Systematicity, and Practicality

From Argument and Philosophy to Critical Thinking Across the Curriculum

Reflections on the Nature of Critical Thinking, Its History, Politics, and Barriers, and on Its Status across the College & University Curriculum Part I

Reflections on the Nature of Critical Thinking, Its History, Politics, and Barriers, and on Its Status across the College & University Curriculum Part II

About Critical Thinking

Defining Critical Thinking

Critical Societies: Thoughts from the Past

Sumner's Definition of Critical Thinking

Our Concept and Definition of Critical Thinking

Critical Thinking: Basic Questions & Answers

A Brief History of the Idea of Critical Thinking

International Critical Thinking Manifesto

Fundamentals of Critical Thinking

Distinguishing Between Inert Information, Activated Ignorance, Activated Knowledge

Critical Thinking: Identifying the Targets

Critical Thinking Development: A Stage Theory

The Elements of Reasoning and the Intellectual Standards

Becoming a Critic Of Your Thinking

Bertrand Russell on Critical Thinking

Valuable Intellectual Traits

Universal Intellectual Standards

Documenting the Problem

Critical Thinking in the Engineering Enterprise: Novices Typically Don't Even Know What Questions to Ask

Critical Thinking Movement: 3 Waves

Higher Education Instruction

Critical Thinking and Nursing

Radio Show and Podcast: Critical Thinking for Everyone!

K-12 Instruction Strategies and Samples

Strategy List: 35 Dimensions of Critical Thought

The Questioning Mind

Newton, Darwin, & Einstein

The Critical Mind is A Questioning Mind: Learning How to Ask Powerful, Probing Questions

Three Categories of Questions: Crucial Distinctions

Complex Interdisciplinary Questions Exemplified: Ecological Sustainability

Issues in Critical Thinking

Ethical Reasoning Essential to Education

Engineering Reasoning

Accelerating Change

Critical Thinking and Emotional Intelligence

Natural Egocentric Dispositions

For Students

Critical Thinking in Everyday Life: 9 Strategies

Developing as Rational Persons: Viewing Our Development in Stages

How to Study and Learn (Part One)

How to Study and Learn (Part Two)

How to Study and Learn (Part Three)

How to Study and Learn (Part Four)

The Art of Close Reading (Part One)

The Art of Close Reading (Part Two)

The Art of Close Reading (Part Three)

Looking To The Future With a Critical Eye: A Message for High School Graduates

Becoming a Critic Of Your Thinking

General

Reading Backwards: Classic Books Online

Trade Books

Liberating the Mind: Overcoming Sociocentric Thought and Egocentric Tendencies

30 Days to Better Thinking and Better Living through Critical Thinking - One-Week Sample

Transparencies/PowerPoint Slides

1 Table of Contents

2 Garbage and Powerful Ideas

3 Elements and Standards

5 Socratic Questioning

6 Designing Structures

7 Content as Thinking

8 Affective Dimension of Thinking....Ego and Non

9 Where Do We Stand

Posters/Other Materials

Card 1 - Teach for Depth of Understanding

Card 2 - The Elements of Thought

Card 3 - Questions for Socratic Dialogue

Card 4 - Intellectual Standards

Card 5 - Dimensions of Critical Thought

Card 6 - Intellectual Virtues

Poster 1 - Analysis of Thought

Poster 2 - Intellectual Standards

Poster 3 - Elements of Thought

Poster 4 - Elements, Standards, and Traits

Poster 5 - Parts of Thinking

Critical Thinking: What Every Person Needs to Survive in a Rapidly Changing World

Chapter 1 - The Critical Thinking Movement in Historical Perspective

Chapter 2 - Critical thinking Basic Questions and Answers

Chapter 3 - The Logic of Creative and Critical Thinking

Chapter 4 - Critical Thinking in North America

Chapter 5 - Background Logic, Critical Thinking, and Irrational Language Games

Chapter 6 - A Model for the National Assessment of Higher Order Thinking

Chapter 7 - Using Intellectual Standards to Assess Student Reasoning

Chapter 8 - Why Students - and Teachers - Don't Reason Well

Chapter 9 - Critical Thinking Fundamentals to Education for a Free Society

Chapter 10 - Critical Thinking and the Critical Person

Chapter 11 - Critical Thinking and the Nature of Prejudice

Chapter 12 - Ethics Without Indoctrination

Chapter 13 - Critical Thinking, Moral Integrity, and Citizenship Teaching for the Intellectual Virtues

Chapter 14 - Dialogical Thinking Critical Thinking Thought Essential to the Acquisition of Rational Knowledge and Passions

Chapter 15 - Power, Vested Interest, and Prejudice On the Need for Critical Thinking in the Ethics of Social and Economic Development

Chapter 16 - The Critical Connection Higher Order Thinking that Unifies Curriculum, Instruction, and Learning

Chapter 17 - Dialogical and Dialectical Thinking

Chapter 18 - The Art of Redesigning Instruction

Chapter 19 - Using Critical Thinking to Identify National Bias in the News

Chapter 20 - Socratic Questioning

Chapter 21 - Strategies Thirty-Five Dimensions of Critical Thinking

Chapter 22 - Critical Thinking in the Elementary Classroom

Chapter 23 - Critical Thinking in Elementary Social Studies

Chapter 24 - Critical Thinking in Elementary Language Arts

Chapter 25 - Critical Thinking in Elementary Science

Chapter 26 - Teaching Critical Thinking in the Strong Sense A Focus on Self-Deception, World Views, and a Dialectical Mode of Analysis

Chapter 27 - Critical Thinking Staff Development The Lesson Plan Remodeling Approach

Chapter 28 - The Greensboro Plan A Sample Staff Development Plan

Chapter 29 - Critical Thinking and Learning Centers

Chapter 30 - McPeck's Mistakes Why Critical Thinking Applies Across Disciplines and Domains

Chapter 31 - Bloom's Taxonomy and Critical Thinking Instruction Recall is Not Knowledge

Chapter 32 - Critical and Cultural Literacy Where E.D. Hirsch Goes Wrong

Chapter 33 - Critical Thinking and General Semantics On the Primacy of Natural Languages

Chapter 34 - Philosophy and Cognitive Psychology Contrasting Assumptions

Chapter 35 - The Contribution of Philosophy to Thinking

Chapter 36 - Critical Thinking and Social Studies

Chapter 37 - Critical Thinking and Language Arts

Chapter 38 - Critical Thinking and Science

Chapter 39 - Critical Thinking, Human Development, and Rational Productivity

Chapter 40 - What Critical Thinking Means to Me The Views of Teachers

Chapter 41 - Glossary An Educators Guide to Critical Thinking Terms and Concepts

Translations

Arabic - The Miniature Guide to Critical Thinking Concepts & Tools

Bulgarian - The Miniature Guide to Critical Thinking Concepts & Tools

French - Asking Questions

French - Elements of Thought

French - How Skilled Is Your Thinking

French - Miniature Guide to Critical Thinking Concepts & Tools

French - Scientific Thinking

French - Stages of Development

French - Strategic Thinking

French - Thinker's Guide to Engineering Reasoning

French - Tools for Taking Charge

French - Universal Intellectual Standards

German - Miniature Guide to Critical Thinking Concepts & Tools

Persian - Miniature Guide to Critical Thinking Concepts & Tools

Spanish - Miniature Guide to Critical Thinking Concepts & Tools

Spanish - Thinker's Guide to Analytic Thinking

Spanish - Thinker's Guide to Asking Essential Questions

Spanish - Thinker's Guide to How to Read a Paragraph

Spanish - Thinker's Guide to How to Write a Paragraph

Spanish - Miniature Guide to Critical Thinking for Children

Spanish - Thinker's Guide to How to Study and Learn a Discipline

Thai - Miniature Guide to Critical Thinking Concepts & Tools

Thai - The Aspiring Thinker's Guide to Critical Thinking

Turkish - Miniature Guide to Critical Thinking Concepts & Tools

Turkish - Miniature Guide to Critical Thinking for Children

Turkish - Thinker's Guide on How to Detect Media Bias and Propaganda

Korean - How to Read a Paragraph

Korean - How to Write a Paragraph

Korean - Thinker's Guide to Analytic Thinking

Persian - The Thinker's Guide to Clinical Reasoning

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